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Teenage Lapsus$ ringleader was responsible for crime spree, UK court rules

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The alleged teenage ringleader of the Lapsus$ cyber extortion collective, which hacked into the systems of multiple high-profile victim organisations in 2021 and 2022, has been ruled responsible for his hacking spree at Southwark Crown Court. The 18-year old from Oxford, who was first named as Arion Kurtaj earlier is year, is autistic and was…

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Alternative perspectives: relational and virtue ethics in tech

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If you are involved in collecting and analysing data, or developing or applying algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, you probably want to do so responsibly. You can turn to documents that list and discuss ethical principles, such as preventing harms, human dignity, human autonomy, fairness, equality, transparency and explicability. Great principles – but they…

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Cyber Explorers programme reaches 50,000 11-14 year olds in 18 months

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The government-backed Cyber Explorers programme has reached 50,000 young people at 2,000 schools around the UK since its launch in February 2022, and ahead of the new school year, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging teachers across the country to sign up to access free resources to help secondary school-aged children build up…

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AI Server Market to Reach $150 Billion by 2027

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Demand for generative AI services is skyrocketing and driving the need for AI servers and machines that are substantially different from traditional servers. The category is growing so quickly that sales of AI servers are set to reach $150 billion in 2027, according to Liu Yangwei, the chairman of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturing…

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AI interview: Krystal Kauffman, lead organiser, Turkopticon

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Globally dispersed digital gig workers tasked with training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are in the process of coordinating collective responses to common challenges they face in the workplace, says Turkopticon lead organiser Krystal Kauffman, who has been involved in the transnational organising process with other Mechanical Turk workers since 2020. While the popular perception of…

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Most influential women in UK tech: The 2023 longlist

26 minutes of reading / 5G, Accenture, agile, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Cisco, Cloud, Computer, data analytics, data science, DevOps, Ericsson, Expedia, fintech, Flex, Fujitsu, Google, Google Cloud, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Okta, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Siemens, Snap, software engineering, Sony, Square, Tech, Technology, Twilio / By

Each year when Computer Weekly asks for nominations for its list of the most influential women in UK tech, the number of women considered grows. This year, more than 650 women were put forward for the top 50, Rising Stars and Hall of Fame, showing yet more growth from previous years – in 2017 when…

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MPs warn about growing prevalence of tech-enabled domestic abuse

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MPs are calling on the UK government to tackle technology-facilitated domestic abuse as a priority, after inquiry finds perpetrators are increasingly using smart devices to establish coercion and control over survivors. In May 2022 the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee launched an inquiry into the potential benefits and harms of connected technologies, which it…

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Workplace monitoring needs worker consent, says select committee

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Enterprises should only be able to digitally monitor and surveil employees with their explicit consent, according to a select committee report on the impacts of connected internet of things (IoT) technologies.Published 7 August 2023, the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee’s Connect tech: smart or sinister report concluded its year-long inquiry into the potential benefits…

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Some AMD and Nvidia GPUs are getting more expensive – should PC gamers be worried?

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Hardware, Intel, Tech / By

It seems that graphics card prices are going up for some models, sadly, though there are still GPUs out there experiencing price drops.Tom’s Hardware does a monthly scout of GPU pricing to produce some very handy stats on price movements for graphics cards at US retailers, and for July, there are some AMD Radeon products…

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Amazon CEO cites enterprise shift in cloud spending priorities for upbeat Q2 results

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has credited a shift in its customers’ cloud-spending priorities as playing a pivotal role in helping the e-commerce giant post a better than expected set of second quarter results. The results period, which covers the three months to 30 June 2023, saw Amazon report a revenue of $134.4bn for Q2, which…

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